I think we definitely need to understand the strategic importance of NIH.

So, the lower the funding level, the----

Well, I think the obvious thing that strikes me is that we're simply not on a growth pattern like we ought to be on.

Senator Harkin and I added an amendment to the budget resolution last week for $2.2 billion.

Well, if they have been doing guinea pigs for a couple years and they have gotten some pretty good results, I am just wondering how soon they might be ready to take it to a higher order of mammals.

I have been hearing about this. Seventeen years I have been hearing about regenerating hair cells.

I think stroke remains still one of the feared things that can happen to someone.

the $40 million will be spent each year for 4 years.

I have been told that 1 out of every 3 returning Iraqi veterans... seeks mental health help some time during the first year.

But you are--somewhere in this whole big $1.4 billion, you do have research on stress that is ongoing, dealing with how stress relates to physiological problems?

We know are predictors for drug abuse and for mental health problems and for drug abuse.

Workforce enhancement should be treated as a matter of national competitive survival.

Is this action by Wage and Hour in Iowa coming from some DOL directive that I do not know about, and that we have not seen?

I am going to bring this up with every secretary that appears here.

Well, some of these--I do not know. There is one in 2004 to the Manufacturing Institute of the National Association of Manufacturers.

Well, we have been there.

You are saying your hands are tied. If you have a deficit area right next to a surplus area, you cannot take it from the surplus area and put it in the deficit area if that is needed?

We urge you to make funding the implementation of the CAA an equally bipartisan and universally supported effort.